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Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. It can also be defined as a set of activities and processes to solve problems by using or applying the characteristics of game elements. Gamification commonly employs game design elements to improve user engagement, organizational productivity, flow, learning, crowdsourcing, employee recruitment and evaluation, ease of use, usefulness of systems, physical exercise, traffic violations, voter apathy, and more. A collection of research on gamification shows that a majority of studies on gamification find it has positive effects on individuals.^[4] However, individual and contextual differences exist.

Techniques

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

More than any words you say in your presentation, your audience will remember what they “see” in their minds while they are listening. Learn the secrets of great storytelling. Everybody loves a good story.

By Emma Coats

These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s story artist. Number nine on the list—when you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next—is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres.

1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
2. Keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.
3. Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about until you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
5. Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.

       6 . What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?

       7 . Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

Artificial Intelligence — industry specific:

🛌 Accomodation & Hotel

Exa — helps engage and delight guests with voice automated solutions

💱 Advertisement

Datacratic — helps you focus your digital ad on people you want to target
TNAB — a way to show personalised and engaging advertisement

🐮 Agriculture

Abundant Robotics — robotic solutions for difficult jobs in agriculture
AgriData — mapping software specifically for agriculture
Blue River Technology — acquired by John Deere
Descartes Labs — collects satellite imagery and makes ready for use+analysis
Grojo — grow room controller and monitoring system
Mavrx — aerial imaging that provides deep understanding of crop
Peat — automatic image recognition for plant damage
Pivot Bio — crop soil and microbial health management
Prospera Technologies — monitor and analyse plant health
TerrAvion — aerial imagery to learn about crop health and more
Trace Genomics — help measure soil health and nutritional status
Tule — remote crop water monitoring and irrigation control
UDIO — helps manage water usage

Artificial Intelligence for businesses (enterprise functions):

🗣 Conversational Interfaces & Chatbots

API.ai — advanced tools needed to build conversational user interfaces
Chatfuel — build a Facebook chatbot without coding
Comm.ai — add voice and chat API to websites and apps
Conversica — conversational interfaces to help get more sales
EDDI — create, test and deploy chatbots
FPT AI Platform — automated interaction with end-users
Golem.ai — natural language interpretation tool for developers
Gong — analyses and improves sales conversations and discovery calls
Kasisto — conversational AI platform for the finance industry
KITT.AI — create conversational agents using a visual interface
Maluuba — teaching machines to think, reason and communicate
Massively — build chatbots for business
Meya — build, train and host bots in one platform
MindMeld — improved version of Siri
Mobvoi — smartwatch with voice integration
Motion AI — chat bots made easy
msg.ai — chatbot with management dashboard
Octane AI — marketing automation for messaging
OpenAI Gym — open source interface to reinforcement learning tasks
Orbit — tools to help to help automate conversational AI
Pool — personal assistant that helps you get more work done
Recast — collaborative platform to build, train, deploy intelligent bots
Reply.ai — platform to build and manage your conversational strategy
Semantic Machines — conversational AI for work, travel, shop and play
Snips — add a voice Assistant to your connected product
Servo — full spectrum bot and voice which integrates with existing systems
Smartly.ai — all-in-one platform for voice and chat applications
UNU.ai — using the Swarm Intelligence (group brainpower) for chatbots
Unify — e-commerce chatbot
uTu — multi-channel bot analytics and data management
Wit.ai — easily create text or voice based bots for preferred platform
Wysh — enterprise scale chatbot with payment methods
Zero AI — voice interface that understands meaning, intent and context